Marcel Martinet (Dijon, 22 August 1887 – Saumur, 18 February 1944) was a French pacifist socialist revolutionary militant and a prolétarian writer.

Life

Martinet, a Communist and pacifist, opposed the First World War from its outset: his antiwar poems Les temps maudits were banned in France during the war, but circulated secretly: helped by Marguerite Rosmer, he sent copies on thin paper to soldiers at the front.[1] La Maison à l'Abri, a novel about the First World War, was runner-up for the Prix Goncourt in 1919.[2] Martinet's poem La Nuit, completed in 1919, was published in 1922 with a preface by Leon Trotsky,[3] whom Martinet had befriended when Trotsky was in Paris.[1] Martinet's series Les Cahiers du Travail [Labour Notebooks] published pamphlets by Victor Serge.[1]

His son was the surgeon Jean-Daniel Martinet.

Works

  • Les temps maudits; poèmes, 1914-1918, 1918
  • La Maison à l'Abri
  • Culture prolétarienne, 1935
  • Correspondance croiseé : 1932-1944, Bassac: Plein Chant, 1987.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ian Birchall, 'Introduction', Victor Serge, Revolution In Danger, Haymarket Books, 2011, p. 4
  2. ↑ Michael Rosen, Europe's charnel house (review of George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution), The Guardian, 2 February 2008
  3. ↑ Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner, Passion and rebellion: the expressionist heritage, Taylor & Francis, 1983, p. 119

Further reading

  • George Paizis, Marcel Martinet: poet of the revolution, London: Francis Boutle, 2007
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